In this commentary: Tokyo’s Ancient Answer to a Modern Problem Tokyo’s sustainable tourism isn’t a new trend. The city applies its centuries-old principle of mottainai, or avoiding waste. The city ...

When I tell my friends and family back home that the Tokyo micro-apartment my boyfriend and I share is 21 square meters, one room and only has a single-burner stovetop, I invariably see the same ...

Set in a small block of 7 apartments in Setagaya ward in Tokyo, Small Design Studio’s Kumiko Ouchi re-designed this small apartment into a combined home and work space for her partner and her cat ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Six people were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke in a fire at a Tokyo apartment building on Thursday, with authorities suspecting a portable battery as the culprit. Rechargeable ...

TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The price of new apartments in Tokyo during 2023 averaged more than 100 million yen annually for the first time ever, pushed up by rising labour and construction costs as ...

TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) - The average sales price for newly-built apartment units in Japan's metropolitan Tokyo area jumped to 143.6 million yen ($1.07 million) in March, topping the 100 million yen ...

Two videos on TikTok recently went viral and showed the crazy differences between two different micro apartments — one in the East Village neighborhood of New York City and the other one in Tokyo, ...

TOKYO -- Apartment-style hotels equipped with kitchens and laundry machines are cropping up in Japan to cater to the growing number of international tourists who stay for a week or more.

For a $1,500 per month apartment in Tokyo: 1. New renters have to pay 2 month’s rent in advance = $3,000 2. New renters have to give another 2 month’s rent as a security deposit = $3,000 3. New ...

The government of Tokyo, Japan, is looking to aggressively increase the number of chargers for electric vehicles in its apartment buildings in the coming years. To do that, it is raising incentives ...